CREATIVE TEAM

DICK BRUKENFELD (Playwright) wrote Blind Angels, about a news reporter who finds that his Yale room-mate is planning a terrorist attack in N.Y.C., which Theater for the New City premiered in 2014. His Extenuating Circumstances, America-China, the first incident was done at Perry Street Theatre. WHDH-TV Boston premiered his one-act farce Big Game and his screenplay “Domino” was optioned by David Dretzin. A former theatre critic for the Village Voice, he directed several comedies in the downtown theater, including The Underpants at Perry Street and The Snob in a production at Circle Rep.

CHARLES MARYAN (Director) NY CREDITS: OFF-BROADWAY: premiere of Ira Levin’s Cantorial, New York 1937, Mercy Street, First Week in Bogota, The Last Girl Singer, The Aunts, The World of Wallowich, Algonquin Sampler, a Literary Revue and the 50th Anniversary production of In White America (New Federal Theater) which won the Audelco Award for Best Revival. He directed Murray Schisgal’s The Typist and the Tiger on London’s West End, plus a multitude of plays and contemporary operas across America.

ATKIN PACE (Set Designer) NY CREDITS: BROADWAY: Asst. Set designer for Leap of Faith, Young Frankenstein, The Producers,The Lion Kingto name a few. He has been Associate or Assistant Designer on over 40 Broadway shows and Principle Designer on another two. Also has designed many Off-Broadway and Regional Shows. Currently teaches Scene Design and Drafting for the Theatre at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Purchase College, SUNY.

CHARLES GROSS (Music Supervisor) has written music for films, television and theatre. NY MUSIC CREDITS: music for Richard III (with Al Pacino) , King Lear(New York Shakespeare Festival), The Blacks, The Great White Hope and various scores for Arena Stage in Washington. FILM SCORES: Robert Frost, A Lover’s Quarrel With The World (which won an Academy Award for the Best Feature Documentary), The Group, Country, Air America, The Great White Hope and Burt Lancaster’s Valdez is Coming. TV SCORES: He has written music for more than 50 TV movies and mini-series, receiving an Emmy for his score to Rodeo Red and the Runaway. He wrote the music for The Dain Curse, Teacher, Teacher (another Emmy Award winning show), as well as scores for the series Call To Glory, N.Y.P.D., and Nurse. His other scores include the notable Burning Bed (starring Farah Fawcett)

MARIA OZMEN (Costumer) NY CREDITS: Costume Design: On dine (MadArt Creative), Inner Reaches: Year I (MadArt Creative), The Minstrel Show (The Weasel Festival), 10 Days in a Madhouse (Strangemen & Co.) Asst. Costume Design: Martha Graham Dance Company, Judd Greenstein’s A Marvelous Order, An Opera About Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (New Amsterdam Records & 3-Legged Dog), In The Secret Sea (Frankel Green), Oculto Manor (Anheuser -Busch), Costume Design Assistant: Caf e Society (Woody Allen) Based in NYC since 2012, Maria has worked with fabulous casts and production teams in theater, opera, dance and film and is thrilled to join this production of THE BIG BROADCAST.